How to Splunk with Heroku

February 23, 2013 dancroak logging debugging splunk heroku How to Splunk with Heroku Splunk is company that offers logging services. They went public last year, have a market cap of over $3 billion, and are headquartered in San Francisco’s SoMa neighborhood. I’ve tried Loggly and Papertrail. In my opinion, Splunk is the best of the bunch due to its: Real-time or very-near-real-time data discovery. Wildcard search. Timespan dragging. Loggly and Papertrail offer Heroku add-ons but Splunk doesn’t. So, setup is a bit more complex with Splunk. Here’s how to do it. Go to Splunk Storm . Create an account. Once signed in, create a project: You can start with a free plan: Click “Network data”: Click “Authorize your IP address”: Click “Automatically”: You now have 15 minutes to send Splunk data. Copy the URL in the text box: Then, add a Heroku syslog drain : heroku drains:add logs4....